Home mortgage foreclosures were halted in up to 50 states while the banks re-examined their foreclosure processes and documents . . . → Read More: Banks Stop Foreclosure Temporarily
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Lawsuit against Citigroup and Ally Financial claims that through MERS the banks are foreclosing on homes even when they don’t hold titles to the properties. . . . → Read More: Citigroup and Ally Sued for False Foreclosures Due to the inability of the “Making Home Affordable” program to help stop foreclosure for a large number of ineligible, willing applicants, foreclosures continued to spiral out of control, the Deed for Lease program was born. . . . → Read More: Lease Back Home In Foreclosure Exploding foreclosure rates have continued in 2009 in the U.S., especially in California, Nevada, Florida and Arizona. Under the Bush Administration there were programs initiated to help homeowners facing foreclosures Now, President Obama and his Administration has rolled out what is sure to be a few of many programs to address the run away foreclosure rates and help about 9 million homeowners save and keep their homes. One such program launched this month is the “Making Home Affordable” Program. The “Making Home Affordable” program, is a two-prong approach for the foreclosure crisis that involves loan modification and refinancing programs for struggling homeowners. The loan modification approach is designed to bring lenders and borrowers together to modify the terms of their loan by lowering interest rates to as low as 2 percent for five years. After the five years, rates will rise to about five percent until the loan is repaid. For eligible borrowers, they will have to provide their most recent tax return and two pay stubs, as well as an “affidavit of financial hardship” to qualify for the loan modification program, which runs through 2012. Making Home Affordable modification program guidelines are as follows;
 Religious leaders and community activists and others gathered in Washington D.C. to meet with Federal officials, Congress and members of the Barack Obama transition team for a solution, such as more loan modifications and the like, to slow down the ever-growing foreclosure crisis that is affecting millions of homeowners. The religious leaders and prayerful were also there in Washington, D.C. to pray for some relief to homeowners facing foreclosure and eviction. Their prayers may have been answered, somewhat. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two of the largest home loan lenders in the U.S., have agreed to stop foreclosure and evictions for about six weeks beginning Nov 26, 2008 through January 9, 2009, just in time for the holidays. The suspension of foreclosures According to Fannie Chief Executive Officer Herb Allison,
Continue reading Foreclosures and Evictions Stop by Fannie and Freddie  Leave a comment  Foreclosure News  default_notices, delinquencies, evictions, fannie_mae, foreclosure_help, foreclosure_prevention, freddie_mac, home_foreclosures, hope_now, loan_default, loan_modification, mortgage_foreclosures, mortgage_loan, project_lifeline, stop_foreclosure, subprime_mortgage_loans In a bold move to try and slow down the foreclosure melt downs, JP Morgan Chase has put a stop to placing delinquent home loans into foreclosure for 90 days to try to help homeowners keep their homes. The Chase foreclosure plan will cease putting delinquent loans into the foreclosure process for 90 days as it puts a loan modification team together and implement their mortgage rescue plan. Their foreclosure prevention plan is intended to assist home loan borrowers at risk of foreclosure receive mortgage modifications. Loan modifications have been pretty hard to get in this mortgage crisis since many homeowners owe more on their home loans than their home is worth. A loan modification is the process by which the homeowner tries to get the terms of their loan modified to accommodate affordabilty. JP Morgan Chase plans to prevent unnecessary foreclosures Despite the fact that JP Morgan Chase is one of the largest banks affected by the foreclosure crisis, holding 1.5 Trillion dollars in mortgage loans, will be implement their plan on loans held by the bank which is only about 20% and the other 80% of loans are held by investors whose loans they service and are currently not figured into this plan, yet. According to Charlie Scharf, CEO of Retail Financial Services at Chase,
One of the program’s first priorities, is to eliminate the negative amortization loans it services, most of which they inherited when they took over Washington Mutual Bank and EMC. This is a significant addition to its current foreclosure prevention program. Continue reading JP Morgan Chase Stops Foreclosures for 90 Days After several weeks of billion dollar lifelines being thrown to Big Business and Wall Street, there appears to be a growing consensus that the mortgage crisis was caused by low-income home buyers. Many people believe that because low to moderate income home-buyers received SUBPRIME mortgage loans to buy their homes from banks and brokers who turned around and sold investments backed by those SUBPRIME loans on Wall Street, that these home-buyers are responsible for the financial crisis we are currently experiencing in the United States and around the globe. Many are pointing directly at the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which was created to prevent redlining and discrimination in certain geographic neighborhoods by banks and lenders. Just to name a few of the people blaming low income homeowners for “wanting the American Dream” are as follows from the Washington Post’s Clarence Page;
Continue reading Blame Low Income Home Buyers In an attempt to resolve the home mortgage foreclosure crisis, six major home loan lenders are offering to freeze foreclosures Project Lifeline, announced today February 12, 2008, would temporarily stop foreclosure proceedings on homeowners who have fallen seriously behind in their house payments. Continue reading Will Foreclosure Freeze Help You Save Your Home California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals plan for state assistance to stop foreclosures The Governor announced a public awareness campaign aimed at California homeowners who may be staring down the barrel of foreclosure. According to the Governor’s website, he stated,
This 1.2 million dollar campaign is designed to educate California homeowners how and where to seek assistance with their mortgage to avoid foreclosure. California is one of the top 10 states with the highest foreclosure of homes. Check out the Governor’s video below on his stop foreclosure plan. Continue reading California Governor Offers Plans to Stop Foreclosures Home foreclosures There are people who were just on the door steps of foreclosure and tried to refinance their current home loan with a bad credit loan or sometimes known as a “hard money loan”, only to be told that hey did not qualify. It seems ironic that if you wanted a bad credit loan that charges more fees and higher interest rates to try and avoid foreclosure, why can’t you qualify? If you have few late payments, you have the bad credit secured with real estate , so why not qualify for the bad credit loan? Know the difference between a bad credit subprime loan and a hard money loan. A hard money loan is generally based on the value of amount seeking to borrow and the market value of the home, and is a type of subprime loan. If you have any equity in Continue reading Bad Credit Loan To Save Home |
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